Title:Turkish military says destroys 12 targets in northern Iraq

ISTANBUL — The Turkish military destroyed 12 targets in northern Iraq belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in overnight air strikes, it said on Tuesday, as the army steps up operations against militant targets in the Qandil region.

土耳其军方星期二说，当军队对卡恩迪尔地区军事目标采取军事行动时，一夜空袭摧毁了伊拉克北部属于库尔德工人党的12个目标。

The targets, in northern Iraq's Qandil, Hakurk and Avasin-Basyan regions, included shelters and ammunition depots, it said. Turkey's army has recently ramped up strikes against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, which has bases in the Qandil mountains.

报告称，在伊拉克北部的Qandil、Hakurk和Avasin-Basyan地区，这些目标包括避难所和弹药库。土耳其军队最近针对伊拉克北部非法的库尔德工人党发起了攻击，该党基地位于坎迪尔山脉。

The army also said that 34 militants had been  "neutralized"  in operations in northern Iraq between June 1 and June 8. The military uses the term  "neutralized"  to refer to operations in which opposition forces have been killed, wounded or captured.

军方还说，6月1日至6月8日期间，在伊拉克北部的行动中，有34名激进分子被击溃，军方使用了"中和"一词，指的是反对派部队被杀、受伤或俘获的行动。

President Tayyip Erdogan, who faces presidential elections on June 24, on Monday said Turkey would drain the  "terror swamp"  in Qandil.

面临6月24日总统选举的塔伊普·埃尔多安总统星期一说，土耳其将吞噬坎迪尔的“恐怖沼泽”。

The PKK, which has waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast, is considered a terrorist organization by the United States, Europe and Turkey. — Reuters

库尔德工人党在土耳其东南部主要是库尔德人发起了三十年的叛乱，被美国、欧洲和土耳其视为恐怖组织。